Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Review

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You get more out of life when
you go out to a movie and no,

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I'm with the show. Hello everybody, and welcome back to the box

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office, brought to you by a
Film by Podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson,

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I'm David Burns. Let's talk about
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part one. Go,

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everyone is raving. Mission Impossible.
Dead Reckoning is a rullercoaster of insanity.

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You have no idea. It's off
the chart spectacular. Tom Cruise has

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undone himself. Proto plan b.
Okay, what is that? Prepare for

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the best movie of the summer.
Hey, god, tickets on sale now,

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Dave. Tom Cruise is back.
He is bringing some familiar faces with

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him. He's bringing some new faces
with him. Let's talk about the cast

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of this, uh, this new
Mission Impossible film. Well, as you

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know what, Tom Cruise is going
to knock it out of the park.

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He's starting to prove himself with this
big comeback that he's doing. We got

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it with Top Gun Maverick last year, and we get it again with Mission

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Impossible Dead Reckoning. But you know, I being Raimes is back. Simon

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of Hague is back. Um.
You know it's it's exciting to see those

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guys together again. Of course we
get Rebecca Ferguson. Yeah, she's back

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from I think she dates back to
is I think Ghost Protocols whenn't She's introduced,

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h her is Lafou's characters introduced.
I've been I've been happy to see

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her coming back. Vanessa Kirby playing
the White Widow. She's back. And

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then we got some new we got
some new faces, the hottest, one

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of the hottest new villains for this
franchise. Us talking about Gabriel played by

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e Sai Morales. Oh wow,
man, he another actor who knocked it

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out of park in this film.
Um. I thought he did an incredible

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job and held his own against Tom
Cruise. He's fantastic. I mean,

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he's one of the He's one of
those character actors who he's he's been around

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for for several decades. Um man, we have is this what we've been

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missing from him this whole time?
Because he was beIN fantastic He was love,

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loved, loved the Sai Morales on
the big screen going up against Ethan

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Hunt. How about how about his
muscle? Let's talk about the the awesome

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performance by none other than Palm Clementiff
oh yeah. So you know, any

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great villain needs a great henchman or
in this case, a sheetman. I

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don't know if you would say henchwoman, henchwoman, I guess. Yeah.

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She was fantastic in this and she
has a really good story arc um as

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well in this movie. I can't
give it away because we are a spoiler,

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but you're gonna love her character.
She's she's scary felt most of the

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movie. It's like just the deadly
assassin in this film. Yeah, she

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was fantastic. Uh. Shay Wigham, who we've talked about before on this

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on this uh, well on a
film buy. I love seeing him his

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character Briggs. You know, this
is one of those movies, Dave.

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We've got multiple groups, multiple people
chasing I feel like everyone's chasing everyone everyone,

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you know at some point, you
know, But that's great for the

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story, you know. It's it's
like you you really don't know who's side

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to follow, Yeah, because you
you know, obviously we're always gonna follow

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Ethan ethan hunt. But you know, is he is he in the right?

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Is he not in the right?
You know, he's he has a

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habit of going rogue. Right.
There's so many characters in this, but

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all the characters are well written and
well rounded that you don't lose track of

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anybody. And you're right, it's
like everybody's chasing each other and you want

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to see who you're following, but
you get involved in everybody's story because it's

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so well written. We were miss
talking new characters. Let's talk about the

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new leading lady, because this this
franchise has been giving us some very strong

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female, uh female leads, female
characters. You know, Rebecca Ferguson back

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again, Vanessa Kirby back again.
We're introduced to Haley at Wells character Grace,

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who's fantastic. Jeff absolutely loved her. Finish. She's on screen and

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you get involved in her story.
You just immediately want more of that character.

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And we get a lot of her
in this and I love that so

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much. Yeah, I all I
can hope for is that we're going to

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get more of her in future installments
because she was amazing. The chemistry between

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her and Tom standing. Yeah,
let's let's talk a little bit about this

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story. Uh let me, let's
let's check some boxes. Dave, is

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Tom Cruise gonna run very fast?
Yes? Is Tom Cruise gonna do some

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insane stuff on a motorcycle. All
right, I'm in. I'm good.

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No, Let's let's talk a little
bit about this action man, because this

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this franchise just seems to top itself
every time they put a new one out.

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Man, Uh, it's it's you. You see so many stunts in

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this movie, so many action sequences
in this movie. One of them goes

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on for a very long time,
but you never ever get bored. Jeff.

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It was just like, oh my
gosh, I don't want this to

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end. It is so well done, so action packed. It just drops

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your jaw because it's done so well, You're like, oh my god,

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how did they do this? It's
I know which one you're talking about.

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And the pleasant thing there, aside
from it just being an incredible action piece,

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was something I didn't I wasn't ready
for, was the the comedic elements

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of of that, of that scene
and of the movie. Like this,

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if this is something that we don't
typically get in the Mission Impossible movie is

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is a little bit of comedy,
but I feel it was it was just

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it was spot on perfect. It
was there. There there's a part in

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that that action sequence that Jeff,
I I was laughing hysterically in that theater.

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It was done so well. Yeah, I was too, man.

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Uh. I mean we all you
know, you've seen the trailer, so

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we know that the death defying stunt
this time out is that that that crazy

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uh bike jump you know, off
the mountain, off the cliff or whatever

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you want to call it, uto
a into parachute mode. I feel like

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anyone that has not seen this movie, they don't they're not even aware of

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what's coming their way because there are
some huge stunts, uh, some very

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intense action. This movie is jam
packed with it, and you got nothing,

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you know now that I looked,
you know, I watched the trailer

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again and I thought, you know, I wasn't even ready for this.

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They didn't allude to that, and
I was still like, wow, this

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looks like the biggest action of all. At one point I literally looked over

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to you, just amazed at that
it kept going and it kept going and

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kept going. I'm like, oh
my god, it doesn't let up.

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But you don't want it to,
you know. I. Yeah, the

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action on this one is fantastic.
And you know, with the action,

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Jeff, you know, we could
sit here and talk forever about the action

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in this movie. But what I
found amazing about this movie is the story,

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the characters that were written in this. You know, you would think

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you have a movie that's so compact
with so much action that it's going to

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lose the story, it's going to
lose character development because it has so much

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squeezed into this three hours. But
Jeff, it didn't. It was so

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well balanced. The characters were so
well written you cared about them, You

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had story arcs, you had a
story that you were so involved in that

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you wanted to continue to see what
happened. And it just blended so well

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with that action. Yeah, something
that Christopher mcquarie has has done really well

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recently with this franchise, you know, because you know we obviously we know

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he's directing this one. Uh he's
like, you know, co co writing

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credit on this one. You're right
though, man. Like the storyline,

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it just it draws you in.
It's it's a smart storyline. You know.

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When we're when you're talking about like
spy fantasy, spycraft types films,

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movies like this, it'd be very
easy. You know, like like look

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at the Fast and Furious franchise,
where it's just a bunch of a bunch

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of big, explosive action scenes just
just tied together, and the story you

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really don't give a shit about.
Um. I feel like this one it

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was like a Tom Clancy movie.
Yeah, you know, unfolding. I

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was really invested in the story and
the action just you know, it doesn't

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look out. Was the icing on
the cake. Yeah, the story of

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the action, everything, it just
not let up. You will not be

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bored in this movie from the from
the moment it starts to the moment it

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ends. You will not be bored. Dave. I know you have a

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special place in your heart for the
music of any film. You know,

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you're always You're always big on composers. What do you think of a Lauren

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Balf's score for this one? Man, I tell you it's it's hard to

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find that original action music because you
know, you get so much generic music

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going on in movies today. But
man, it was not generic on this

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one. You know, this music
nailed this movie. Of course, you

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get the mission impossible theme, which
you expect, and it hits at the

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right moment when it needs to hit. But man, again, with with

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the story of the characters and the
action all blended together, this music blended

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extremely well with this movie. You
know it just it pulls you to the

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edge of your feet and just gets
your heart pounding and pulls you into that

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action. Yeah. Credit credit to
this guy because this is something where we're

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on our our seventh film in the
in the franchise, and we know what

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the mission Impossible theme is. But
the way he gives it his own fresh

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take, you know, his own
update, uh, and then blends it

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throughout the film and and kind of
helps tell the story. Love the music

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and this one, this is this
is one of those like you know,

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give me, give me the give
me the give me the score. You

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know, I listen to it when
i'm you know, in the park running

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or something like that, you know, you know, hands like like Tom

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Cruise obviously exactly. Yeah, but
when it hits, man, you're ready

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to go man, because it's here
we go, Here we go. It

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certainly does hit u. Dave.
Let's let's answer the question. I think

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we've we've we've put all our cards
on the table, as Kittrich would say,

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see it, stream it, skip
it, go see this movie in

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the theater. Do not say I'm
just gonna stream it. I want to

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watch it on TV. Do not
do that to yourself. Do not do

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this to this movie because it deserves
you see on the big screen. Jeff,

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what about you listeners? Should you
choose to go see this on the

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biggest screen with the loudest speakers.
It is a It's definitely one to see,

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Dave. I'd like to see it
again. I'd like to go back

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and see it on Imax. Could
you imagine what it's that's going to look

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like? This is definitely a big, big win for the summer box office.

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Um, definitely the best action movie
we've seen this year. And we've

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had some big We've had some big
contenders come out and kind of let us

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down a little bit. But this
one, I feel Tom Cruise's he's he's

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gonna save Hollywood, save the box
office again again. Yep. Absolutely.

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How's this one doing, Dave?
It's it's been out for a couple of

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days. How's it doing at the
box office? Um? It's looking just

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for internet, you know, for
within the country. It's about eighty two

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point one million dollars that it's a
pulling hand, which is a pretty good

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haul. Um. I know this
budget was huge. Paramount put a lot

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of money into this because they had
faith and it's it's got some long legs.

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Man, this movie is gonna make
its money back without into doubt.

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Dave, I could not agree more. I am glad we got to check

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this one out. And until next
time, I'll buy the tickets, I'll

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buy the popcorn. This episode was
self destruct in five seconds.